Religion: Millions of LDS Documents, Images Now Online

Millions of documents and images in the extensive archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now more accessible to anyone with a computer and Internet access, according to an announcement made Friday during the 47th annual conference of the Mormon History Association convening for three days in Calgary.

“We are pleased as a Church History Department … to announce that the Church History Catalog is now online, and it is live, and it has remarkable features and capabilities,” said Reid L. Neilson, managing director of the department.

Records that can be accessed include journals, record books, letters and correspondence and 19th century books “that will be of great benefit to you as historians and those who are passionate about the Mormon past,” [Reid L.] Neilson, [managing director of the department.]

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.